Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Songs for Pinky Ring Dude

I tend to respect the music of Tune-Yards more than I actually enjoy listening to it. They are fully committed to being avant garde and experimental with finding new sounds, and they also know how to turn them into an unforgettable hook. But I’m rarely compelled to listen to much of it. But it makes Tune-Yards doubly perfect to make the score for a Boots Riley movie, as they did with Sorry to Bother You, and now with I Love Boosters. Not just because they’re Oakland-based, and Riley seems to be a fierce supporter of Oakland as a community, but because you need musicians who know exactly how to keep up with the manic energy and unpredictability of his movies. Listening to “Pinky Ring Dude,” which plays in the moments when Corvette is finding herself entranced by the intensely soulful eyes of LaKeith Stanfield’s unnamed character, really drives home how it’s such a perfect match. When he’s onscreen, everything else stops, including the plunks and whistles and chants of the rest of the…